In this episode:
Justin shares some ruminations on similarities between the historical Al Swearingen and the founder of the Trump family dynasty Friedrich Trump, who also ran a brothel in a gold mining camp.
- Here is a link to the McKay Coppins article about the Trumps (October 2019)
- Here is a link to the Swearingen biography on Amazon. It’s a great read, chocked full of interesting Deadwood history.
Justin provides updates about David Milch’s condition and status of his current writing projects, based on the most recent reporting.
- Here is the link to the Mark Singer New Yorker profile of Milch (May 2019).
Justin charts the next phases of the Knight of Faith podcast project, cataloguing and analyzing Milch lectures and readings spread over five year increments: 2014-2019; 2010-2014; 2004-2009.
- Here is the link to the video that will be the focus of the next podcast.
- And here is the link to the Milch reading at Vulture Festival (May 10, 2014) that has been taken down by Vulture. If anyone can find the actual video please let me know.
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